Covenant in the Persian period
Subtitle: from Genesis to Chronicles
By: edited by Richard J. Bautch and Gary N. Knoppers
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781575063560
Subjects: Biblical teaching; Jews; Bund Gottes; Babylonisches Exil; Covenant theology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Pentateuch.; title: Abraham amidst the nations: the Priestly concept of covenant and the Persian imperial ideology  -- Jakob Wöhrle; title: The "eternal covenant" in the Priestly Pentateuch and the Major Prophets  -- Andreas Schüle; title: Correlating the covenants in Exodus 24 and Exodus 34  -- Wolfgang Oswald; title: The covenant in Leviticus 26: a concept of admonition and redemption  -- Thomas Hieke -- Part 2. Historical books (Deuteronomistic history).; title: "The unwritten text of the covenant": torah in the mouth of the prophets  -- Reinhard Achenbach; title: A balancing act: settling and unsettling issues concerning past divine promises in historiographical texts shaping social memory in the late Persian period  -- Ehud Ben Zvi; title: From covenant to connubium: Persian period developments in the perception of covenant in the Deuteronomistic history  -- Cynthia Edenburg -- Part 3. Prophecy.; title: The covenant in the Book of Jeremiah: on the employment of family and political metaphors  -- Dalit Rom-Shiloni; title: Inner-biblical interpretation in the redaction of Jeremiah 33:14-26  -- Matthew Sjöberg; title: Breaking an eternal covenant: Isaiah 24:5 and Persian-period discourse about the covenant  -- J. Todd Hibbard; title: Presumptions of "covenant" in Joel  -- James Nogalski; title: Curse, covenant, and temple in the Book of Haggai  -- John Kessler; title: Zechariah 11 and the shepherd's broken covenant  -- Richard J. Bautch; title: The reproach of the priests (Malachi 1:6-2:9) within Malachi's conception of covenant  -- Elie Assis; title: Achaemenid Persian concepts pertaining to covenant and Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi  -- Christine Mitchell -- Part 4. Wisdom literature.; title: The Psalms, covenant, and the Persian period  -- W.H. Bellinger Jr.; title: Poems, prayers, and promises: the Psalms and Israel's three covenants  -- Carol J. Dempsey; title: "When the friendship of God was upon my tent": covenant as essential background to lament in the Wisdom literature  -- Jamie A. Grant; title: Qohelet and the covenant: some preliminary observations  -- Thomas M. Bolin -- Part 5. Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah.; title: Ezra 10:3: solemn oath? renewed covenant? new covenant?  -- Douglas J.E. Nykolaishen; title: Reenvisioning the relationship: covenant in Chronicles  -- Mark J. Boda; title: "The Ark of the Covenant of the Lord": the place of covenant in the Chronicler's theology -- Louis C. Jonker.